Speaker 1: Hello you guys, Welcome back to another episode of the
Hawkeral Energy Podcast. I'm your host, Kaylie, and this is
your weekly reminder that it's a new day, a new week,
a new mindset, and another day for you to become
the Howkeral Energy you want to a track? Hello you guys,
Happy at twenty twenty six and happy new Year. It
has been a bit since I've been on the mic,
but I'm not gonna lie. It was a much needed
break and I feel so so good going into this
new year. I hope you guys had the most amazing
holiday season with your friends and family, really just enjoyed
some relaxation. I know I did, and also just kind of,
you know, kind of went into the new year with
a fresh mindset, you know, really looking forward to the
new year ahead, and of course just kind of like
planning or and prepping for twenty twenty six. I personally
felt like these past two weeks have not really been
a break, to be honest, because I feel like I
put all my energy of just organizing decluttering this entire house,
which I'm so happy I did. I always love to
do that every single year. I kind of talked about
that in a few episodes before this one here of
just chatting about things I'm doing before the new year,
and Zach and I dedicated four days of his break
of just literally going through the entire house top to bottom,
and we just like went through our nightstands, went through
our vanities, went through you know, the storage room and
our basements, just like random areas that like we always
ignore that we just like need to go through the pantry,
the fridge. Like I did such a big deep clean
of our fridge. I think it took me like two
hours because I literally through any expired food, took a
cute tip and a toothpick of just like getting in
those areas that are just like annoying that have dust
or dirt or whatever. Right, So I just like went
in really hard with cleaning the fridge, and I feel
really good about it. But I don't know, I just
feel like all areas of the house had to be done.
And because we did this last year, I felt like
it was a little bit easier. This year didn't feel
as long. Last year was like our first time ever
doing this kind of like purge, and it took us
way longer. Last year. I think it took us like
six days to do the entire house, whereas this time
it only took us like three to four days. So
definitely a lot easier than yeah, the previous year, because
the previous year, I think was like two to three
years of stuff that we collected, whereas this time it
was only a year's worth. And then I'm so happy
because this time next year, we'll be in our new
house and we move in hopefully in August early September,
so we'll be not really having to do a purge
because we'll only be in the house for four months,
so I'm hoping that the house will be in good
standings by that point. So yeah, anyways, if you haven't
done a little organization, maybe try and find a weekend
this month to just kind of like go through areas
that you have been avoiding of cleaning. It feels so good.
Trust me, it's so annoying to do it, Like it's
not the best thing in the world. I'm not gonna lie.
I don't want to sit here and say, oh my god,
it was so much fun, Like I would love to
do it again. Like it was not fun at all,
like Zach and I just hated it. But after doing it,
it felt so good. The house felt so clean, and
everything feels clean now, Like everything just feels so good,
and I'm just so happy with how it turned out,
and I'm happy that we put the energy towards it.
So as much as I had a break, I definitely
kind of didn't because I put so much energy of
cleaning the house and all that. We also did like
a four hour reset after taking down the Christmas decorations.
I filmed a YouTube blog of just like the entire
weekend of like I think it was January second, January fourth,
I just like literally did a whole house reset, took
everything down, put all the home decor items back where
they're supposed to go, all that. So if you want
to see that, I will have a linked in the description.
But anyway, it's just really spent this entire break just
really getting this house all organized, all clean, and it
feels really really good going into a new year. We
are going to be talking about healthy girl habits in
this episode. I really wanted to chat about things that
you can do to start in the new year, just
because I feel like January is always that month where
everybody kind of really focuses on their goals and a
lot of it has to do with health goals and
health and wellness, and I kind of wanted to share
a bit of a starter kit of things that I
personally love in the health and wellness industry, but also
things that I've recently discovered that I'm going to be
taking into twenty twenty six as a habit for myself
that I've just honestly recently discovered that I figured I
would share with you guys. I did do an episode recently,
like probably a month ago now about just habits I'm
taking into twenty twenty six that I've consistently done throughout
the past year of twenty twenty five, but this one's
a little bit different. Just some things that might be
a little similar, but some new things that I personally
think are really worth trying in the new year, especially
for someone who might be starting out their health and
wallless journey. Like if you're someone that might be new
to this podcast or someone that you never really took
the time of focusing on their health, feel like this
is a really good episode just to kind of like
listen to get some tips on maybe new habits that
you can take into yourself going into this new Year Ahead.
Before we get into this episode, I do want to
quickly touch on vision boards, because I feel like that's
something that we've definitely talked about a lot these past
few episodes. But I want to just send a gentle
reminder to anyone that hasn't created one, do so now,
because it is the best feeling creating your vision board.
I actually made mine on January first. I spent the
entire day just sitting on my couch watching movies, pulling
images from Pinterest, really just kind of figuring out how
I envision my year ahead. And obviously I took out
my planner. I wrote out four different sections of my goals,
so I always do my health goals, my life goals,
my personal goals, and then my work goals, so I
kind of all separate it in that way, and then
I write at least like five goals for each section,
and then going on pinchers obviously, as you guys know,
figuring out images that kind of reflect those goals and
putting it on a visual and I usually put it
as an iPhone backdrop and then my laptop desktop as well.
So I literally spent like probably three hours going through
Pinter's images. You know, putting it on display, trying to
figure out the arrangement, all that, and I'm so happy
with how it turned out. I am very very excited
for this year. I feel like there's a lot of
things that I'm really excited for. I'm turning thirty this year. Guys.
I can't believe I'm turning thirty. That is so wild
to even say that out loud. That for me is
like a huge one. I'm so excited to enter my
thirties and just kind of like enter a new chapter. Obviously,
Zach and I are moving into our new house, which
is very exciting. I feel like it's a new chapter
for us. I feel like this house here, obviously it
was our first house and we've lived here for over
four years and we adore it. It's going to be
honestly the toughest move because obviously we've gotten engaged here,
we've gotten married here. It just our first house together.
Like there's a lot of memories that are at this place.
But this new house, I think we're both just so
excited because we know this is like the next step
in our marriage. Of also like knowing that this is
going to be our kid's house and it's also like
I don't know, such a big purchase in such an
exciting time of like I don't know putting all our
energy in this house. This house here, it was again
our first house, so we didn't put a lot of
money into it. Like obviously we did a really nice
job with how we decorated it, and we put a
lot of the money towards the kitchen and all that.
Where I feel like this new house like we've been
putting so much work into it of like how we
really envisioned our dream house to look like and obviously
a lot of money is going into it, which whatever
it is, what it is, but like that's what we want,
Like we want this house to be a house for
us to have these next ten to fifteen years, Like
this is the long term house for us. This one
was still a big deal. Obviously, buying your first house
is a big deal. But I don't know, I feel
like this next one is really exciting for us, and
we feel like our hard work has really like been
shown through this new house because I feel like these
past five years, Zach and I have just like worked
our butt off to like wanting to get to the
point that we've gotten to, which is this new house
that we purchased, So I'm really proud of us and
just kind of seeing the growth that we've had for that,
so very excited for that new chapter. And then obviously
just taking my health a huge step forward this year,
Like I really really want to gear in this year,
because I've mentioned it before, I am in my journey
of prepping for pregnancy and trying to conceive, so I'm
like very locked in and really wanting to make this
year all about just my mental health and just ways
that I can really focus on myself. So yeah, it's
quite exciting. But that's kind of like a little sneak
peek of some things that I'm kind of working on
this year and things that I'm really looking forward to.
So yeah, anyways, let's get into today's episode. I just
wanted to kind of catch up with you guys and
do a little recap of how things have been and
what has been going on these past few weeks. But
let's talk about some healthy girl habits that we're going
to start in twenty twenty six. Okay, the first one
is drinking tea. The girls are drinking tea in twenty
twenty six, tea is such an important thing to include
in cheer routine. In my opinion, I think there's so
many amazing benefits to it. Two teas in particular that
I personally love are a green tea in the morning
and then a peppermint tea at night for two specific reasons.
I like to have a green tea in the morning
because I do find it helps support metabolism. It also
helps with your focus, boost energy, just a lot of yeah,
random benefits that I feel like really really help, especially
in the morning. I feel like, obviously I want to
be focused throughout the day, I want to have my energy,
and obviously the metabolism is something that I think everybody
wants to prolong for themselves, so that's kind of like
why I like to do that in the morning. And
then I love to have a peppermint tea at night
because it's great for digestion and I also feel like
this just supports my sleep, So I feel like I
get better sleeps when I have a peppermint tea every
single night. And also just like it's a great way
to reduce stress. I find having a tea at night
is very calming. Peppermint tea also is typically caffeine free.
I just want to note that, so just know that
peppermint t is usually caffeine free, so you don't have
to stress about having the caffeine before bed. But I
find it very calming. I find it very relaxing. I
feel like every time I have a peppermint tea before
I go to bed, it's just like the best feeling ever.
I don't know how to explain it. It's just that
warm cup of tea in bed, either reading a book
or watching TV. Like, it's just it's very relaxing. And again,
I just find it helps with my digestion, it helps
with my bloating, and it also just kind of helps
with my sleep and rest and all that. So anyways,
I think all the girls are drinking tea this year,
and they're making it a non negotiable and I think, yeah,
it's just worth it for the benefits and doing it
every single day and actually being consistent with it is
when you're going to see the results, in my opinion.
Another thing I love that the girls are doing is
early morning eyemass. Every single morning, when I wake up
in the morning, I put on some eyemass and I
find it so soothing and obviously it's great benefits for
your under eyes and your skin. I also love using
a ice roller in the morning, so I always use
my Skinny Confidential ice roller. It's so good. I just
love how it deeposs my face in the morning. Also,
just for someone who likes to wake up early in
the morning, like myself, I wake up at six every
single morning, and I find it's the best way to
wake up. Like I'm not always fully awake, Like sometimes
when I'm filming specifically, I'm like, oh my gosh, like
I do not want to do this right now, But
then as soon as I take out my ice roller
and I put it on my face for the five minutes,
I'm like, Okay, I'm awake. I'm feeling good. Let's get
this day started. Like the ice roller does actually really
help soothe your face but also give you a bit
of a wake up call. So using the imass using
the ice roller, I don't know. I find they have
great benefits to it, and I love doing it every
single morning. And also, let's be honest, we love doing
a little bit of self care and starting your day
off that way. I feel like just starts the day
off in the best way possible. So doing those little
things really do add up and makes your morning more
enjoyable and also kind of pushes you to want to
wake up early to do those things. So highly recommend
doing that for someone that might be starting out with
their morning routine, or again, just some health benefits that
you want to include into your routine for this new year.
This next one is what everyone's been talking about lately,
and I was influenced and I did purchase one, but
the vibration plate. Everybody is talking about using a vibration
plate every single morning for ten to fifteen minutes. It's
going to help reduce inflammation, it's going to help boost circulation. Apparently,
there's so many amazing benefits to using it. Also, a
lot of people have been talking about muscle recovery, which
is going to be a big one for this year. Okay,
that's something we're going to chat about. Maybe I'll chat
about the muscle recovery actually after this. But muscle recovery
is something that I am focusing on for twenty twenty
six because I'm a girl that gets injured a lot
because oh I work out a lot, So I need
to really make that a priority. Again, I haven't even
tried it out yet. I just ordered it two days ago.
It's coming in today, so I'm very excited about that.
But yeah, I have never used one before, so I
will give you guys my honest review on what I
think of this. But everyone's been talking about it. I've
seen some girls that are talking about it that I've
been using it for the past few years or past
few months and are saying that, like, the results have
been incredible. I've also seen people say that, yeah, it
doesn't really work for me, I didn't see any benefit whatever.
It really just depends on who you are as a person.
I personally think it's worth trying out. I'm going to
try it out. I'll let you guys know what I think.
If I don't like it, I'll sell it. Or if
I love it, it's going to be a part of
my routine and I'm going to do it every single day.
So it's definitely something that I feel like is a
personal take for certain people. But I'm very excited to
try it out, and we'll let you guys know my
honest feedback once I've used it for a few weeks. Okay,
So Muscle Recovery this is something that I'm making a
non negotiable this year, stretching after my workouts, stretching before
my workouts, warming up, like just making it a non
negotiable before and after my workouts. Because your girl has
been injured a few times this year, and I know
it's because I did not take my muscle recovery seriously.
Every time I was sore, I didn't even think anything
of it, just kind of was like, oh, I'm probably
just sore from my workout whatever. I have now had
my back injury for almost three months. It is still
not one hundred percent. Unfortunately. It is an injury that
does take a long time to heal, which has been
very tough on me mentally, because you know, I can
go to a workout class and I can do the workout,
but I just know, four or five hours after that workout,
I'm going to need a heating pad on my back.
I'm going to need to sit upright. I can't sleep
on my bed properly. Like I've already made so many
adjustments into my day to day routine, Like I had
to buy a new pillow because my pillow wasn't supporting
my back properly. You know I have to sleep in
certain positions because the way I was sleeping before again
wasn't really helping with my back injury. So I've just
had to make so many changes, and I do honestly
think it's because I didn't take muscle recovery seriously. So
from someone with experience who has injured themselves multiple times,
and if I can just tell any girl out there
that's like me that loves to work out so so
much and you know, just enjoy her pilates, her, you know,
weight training all that, make sure to stretch. Please do,
please make sure to stretch, because you do not want
to deal with an injury like I'm dealing with right now.
So just making that a huge priority, even if it
takes five minutes out of your night or ten minutes
out of your night just to focus on those stretches,
it is so worth it, and you don't have to
worry about dealing with an injury like I'm dealing with
right now. So that's definitely something I've been making a priority.
Stretching for ten minutes after our workout or ten minutes
before bed, just really trying to stretch out anything that's sore,
and again doing all my back stretches that was given
from my physio. I feel like whenever you go to physio,
I don't know, you get all these stretches, and I
feel like we all put it behind us and don't
think twice, whereas I'm like, yeah, no, I actually need
to focus on that this year and really get my
back back to where it was. So that's like one
of my main goals this year is to really focus
on muscle recovery. Another one is the girls are working
out for their mental health, not their physical looks. So
this is something that I'm personally working on. I felt
like for so long it was always about physical, physical, physical,
How do I look? Do I have abs yet? Am
I feeling confident in myself? Blah blah blah. No, that's
not what the girls are doing. The girls are working
out because they actually a enjoy the workout that they're
doing and want to show up to it every single day.
And B they're doing it because it's helping their mental health.
It's distressing them, it's not making them feel as anxious.
They're enjoying it because they're doing it with friends, They're
getting out of the house. It's becoming a fun activity
because you're doing it with people, or you're meeting new
friends because you're going to more workout classes, whether it's
a pilates class or it's a gym membership, whatever the
case may be. The girls are working out for the
enjoyment and for their mental health. That is what the
twenty twenty six model is. In my opinion, I think
we're all doing it for that reason and that reason only.
And I always had questions asking me like, oh my god,
like how do you say so consistent with your workout routine,
Like I want to be like that, blah blah blah.
The reason why it's consistent is because I have made
it a non negotiable in my routine, and I have
found workouts that I actually enjoy doing. I love going
to pilates, I love doing workouts at home. Like if
I didn't like a workout, I don't see the point
in going, Like I stop doing it because I'm like, Okay,
this doesn't serve me anymore. I don't enjoy it, I
don't want to go, so I stop doing it and
I do something different. Right, So, I think it's important
to take the time to try new things out. So
if you're new in your health and wellness journey. Try everything.
Go to a gym, go to a pilates studio, try
a Matt Pilates class, try a hot yoga class, try
a hot Matt Pilates class. Like, do everything you can,
because that's what's going to help you realize. Okay, what
did I like? What did I not like? You figure
out a routine for yourself based on the workouts that
you actually enjoy, and you take that into your routine
for the new year ahead. So that's my best recommendation
out of that, And honestly, I think we're all working
out for our mental health. When it comes to stress anxiety,
I feel like it's the best thing to do to
ease that type of stuff, and it just I don't
know is the best way to start the day as well,
or if you're someone that doesn't work out at night
or you know, around your lunchtime break, it doesn't matter.
I think at the end of the day, as long
as you're getting movement in and you're putting that energies
towards yourself and focusing on yourself I think is crucial.
Another thing that the girls are working on this year
is practicing meditation, they are meditating before bed, they are
doing ten minutes of meditation every single day. So breath
work is a big one. I think for me personally,
I'm really trying to focus on my breath work, especially
when I'm feeling super anxious or I'm feeling super stressed.
I want to be able to take, you know, the
stuff that I've learned through meditation into my day to
day work day. If I'm having a really stressful work day,
i want to be able to know exactly how to
destress my body because I've been practicing breath work. So
if you guys have a hatch alarm clock, which I've
talked about multiple times, literally one thing that's changed my
life completely. It is the sunrise alarm clock that you
have by your nightstand. You can control, you know, obviously
the alarm for waking up in the morning. You can
control different types of light that will project as the
sunlight in your room. And then it also has meditation,
which I had no idea about. This is something that
I've recently discovered and I've been doing ten minutes of
meditation every single night before bed since i discovered this
feature on the hatch alarm clock. And it's been the
best way to kind of stay off my phone. Firstly
before bed that's been really really nice is like going
to bed with meditation versus scrolling on my phone, and
then just like having that unwinding and slowing day feeling
of listening to a meditation ten minutes before bed has
been really nice. I find it's obviously helped a lot
with my breath work and really helps me clear my
mind before I go to bed, which I find for me,
I'm an overthinker, and you know, I'm laying in bed
and I'll just think about, Okay, what do I have
to do tomorrow? You know, Oh I gotta do this
for work, Oh I gotta do this whatever. Right, Like,
I'm overthinking constantly, So I feel like when I meditate,
my mind is completely clear. I'm not thinking about that.
I'm thinking about the woman's voice that's coming from my
hatch alarm clock, and she's telling me to do certain
things like whether it's breath work, whether it's stuff to
help calm down my nervous system. Like literally just such
a game changer, and I highly recommend looking into this
if you don't have a hatch alarm clock. I'm sure,
you could do a ten minute YouTube video on your
phone and just like play it again. Best way to
kind of like unwind destress. If you really want to
give that vibe that's really calming and soothing, light a candle.
Oh my goodness, and you can light a candle. That
would be elite. I don't want to do it just
because I'm literally doing it before I fall asleep. But
if you want to do it, like you know, after dinner,
right before you head to bed, I would light a candle,
I'd put out your yoga mat, I'd put on a
YouTube video and literally just spend ten minutes of working
on your breath work meditating. Yeah, that's like a game changer.
So I think all the girls this year are really
going to focus on their breath work and just meditating
and really destressing and focusing on again their health. Next
one is consistently using red light therapy. So obviously red
light therapy mass have been such a huge thing that
everyone's talked about. I love mine. I've had mine for
two years now. I use it two to three times
a week at least I try to do it two
three times a week. That's my goal this year is
to use it two to three times a week. I
would say before I was probably doing maybe once every
two weeks. I wasn't being as consistent with it, but
I will say it does make a huge difference for
my skin, and if you're someone that really wants to
have better skin this year, red light therapy has amazing
benefits for the skin, but also again related to the
mental health aspect, it's really really good for your mood.
And yeah, I think it's incredible and I think there's
a reason why there's so many people talking about it
because there is real good benefits out of it. I
know it's not cheap and it's quite costly, so I'm
not telling you that you have to buy it, but
if there's something that you've been wanting to save up
for that would be worth the splurge, there's a reason
why everyone's talking about it on social media. I think
there is obviously a lot of good benefits to it,
and I've had really good benefits for my skin and
for my face because that's how I use red light therapy.
I'd love to get the red light Therapy panel, which
is something that I've seen people just kind of like
sit in front of every single morning for ten minutes,
but I do not have one because again, they're quite costly.
So for me, I've just been using the face mask
when I walk on my treadmill. That's kind of been
like my new thing that I've added into my routine.
Because twenty twenty six is also the year where the
girls are going to be habit stacking. Okay, you guys
know habit stacking. We're going to talk about that next.
Habit stacking is something we've talked about so many times
here on the podcast, but I'm just including it because
it's just a little gentle reminder. But habit stacking is
basically when you do two things at once. So for example,
if you're going on a walk listen to a podcast
at the same time, if you want to walk on
your treadmill, you could walk on your treadmill and also
do your red light therapy mask. Or you could walk
on your treadmill and also read a book. Again, we're
doing two things at once. We're getting the benefit of
doing two things at once. So if you're the kind
of person that feels like they don't have enough time
to do everything that they want to do before their
workday starts, this is the perfect opportunity to start habit stacking,
doing multiple things at once, and maybe it's listening to
a podcast before you drive to work. Like, there's so
many things that you can do to get everything that
you want before you start your day, and so habit
stacking really just helps you, you know, with your time management,
being able to do multiple things at once and everything
that you want to do as well. If you're the
kind of person that likes to do stuff in your
morning before you start your work day, how it's stacking
will change your life, all right. The girls in twenty
twenty six are going to be taking supplements and vitamins,
but only supplements and vitamins that are actually needed for
yourself based off your blood work results. Okay, hear me out.
I am that kind of person where I have definitely
taken a lot of supplements just from seeing girls on
social media take certain supplements. I have been a victim
to that. But I'm paying all this money for self
supplements are not cheap, So I'm paying all this money
for supplements for things that I don't even know if
my body actually needs or not. Okay, that is just
a waste of your money. In my opinion. So looking
back at that, I have realized that I need to
get blood work done. I actually went to go see
my doctor right before the holidays and I got the
paperwork to get my blood work done. So I'm going
this week to get my blood work done. That way,
I know exactly what vitamins I need to take throughout
this So whether I'm low in iron or i am
low in omega threes, like, there's so many things that
I have no idea what I'm low in or what
I actually need. So then I can actually go purchase
all the supplements and vitamins that I need after I
get my blood work results back based on what my
body actually needs. Do I need Vitamin E? Do I
need Vitamin D? Like? Am I low in whatever? Right?
So definitely take the time to go to your doctor
get the paperwork to get your blood work done. That way,
you don't have to stop spending money on random supplements
and vitamins that honestly your body doesn't need, or you're
just wasting money on things that again you don't need.
So definitely get your blood work done that way, you
know your results. That way you can serve buying supplements
and vitamins that are actually tailored to your body, not
just someone that you see on social media. So I
think that is going to be a big thing for
the girls this year, is really focusing on their supplements
and vitamins, but buying things based off of what their
body actually needs. The next one is Korean skincare only,
meaning that I am only purchasing Korean skincare this year.
I have done a lot of research and I have
watched a lot of girls talk about the benefits to
Korean skincare, and I have three or four different Korean
skincare brands that I've used throughout this past year. Twenty
twenty five. I think was kind of like the first
year where I started to, you know, kind of change
up my skincare routine and you know, starting to get
more Korean skincare from Amazon that I've seen a few
skincare influencers talk about, and the best products that I
could say right now that I've recommended to you guys
are all Korean skincare brands like Metacube is a big one.
I talked about the Metacube exfoliating pads that I've talked
about in a previous episode that literally makes your skin
glow at night. I'm not even over exaggerating. Korean skincare brand.
The face oil that I use every single night, it's
a not a face oil, sorry, a cleansing oil. There
we go and it's again a Korean skincare brand. My
skin loves it. My skin feels hydrated, like my skin
has never felt more hydrated in the winter. Okay, that's
a huge one for me because I have really really
dry skin, and I felt like this time last year,
I remember my skin being so dry and so irritated.
I also have roseatia, so sometimes my face will get
like super super red. My skin has not had knock
on wood. I feel like I need to knock on wood.
My skin has not had to freak out this winter
season yet, and I do think it's because I've invested
in high quality Korean skincare products from Amazon and it
literally has made my skin so hydrated. So coming from
experience here, okay, Korean skincare is your girl for twenty
twenty six. Look at the brands. Go on TikTok search
Korean skincare brands that people I've been obsessed with. You're
going to see all these people come up in different
kind of brands. I will share a few on my
shop my that I've been using that I love that
I've just kind of talked but here, like the Meticube brand,
my cleansing oil, all that those ones here have changed
my life. I have ordered a few new ones for
my under eye. So I bought a new under i
cream because I ran out. One thing that I don't
know what full remove is my road what's it called
the road glazing milk. I do really love that product,
so I don't think I'm going to remove that. But
everything else moisturized or sunscreen, all that all going to
be Korean skincare. Japanese skincare products are also really good,
So the brand Tacha. I love Tatcha. They have a
lot of great skincare products that are very high quality ingredients.
So that is a Sephora brand if you want to
look into that. I personally love Tatcha and I find
my skin loves it, so I have been using a
lot of their skincare products as well. Anyways, just thought
I would bring that up because I do think Korean
skincare has been a game changer for my skin and
I have comparison from this time last year versus now.
And I do think it's because I switched up some
skincare this year, and a lot of it is Korean skincare.
Only I'm gonna keep talking about skin for a second,
because skincare, I think is another big one that people
really try to make a main priority for the new year.
And one thing that I've done a lot of research
on that I just recently purchased a package that I'm
going to do is micro needling. I was never sure
about micro needling, and then, you know, I don't know,
I just kind of was back and forth on it
for so long. After talking to the girl that I
go get my botox with, she was like, you are
going to see so many benefits with collagen doing micro needling,
and also just like firm your skin, it's going to
be smoother, there's going to be less fine lines wrinkles.
Apparently improves your skin texture and tone as well. Also
for people who have acme scarring or facial scarring, apparently
that's really good for it as well. So I've never
done micro needling. I bought the I think it was
like the three three month package where I basically go
once every four to six weeks, so I have three
sessions that I'm going to attend. And again I can't say,
oh my god, it's the best thing ever. But I'm
finally doing it, and I've heard a lot of amazing
benefits out of it. Again, I've seen a lot of
people talk about it and how much of a difference
they've noticed with their skin. And again, everyone has their
own opinion, Like I know, there's some people that you know,
don't support this kind of stuff when it comes to
like boatox filler all that. So totally understand that I'm
not telling you you guys need to do this. These
are just things that I personally think are beneficial that
I want to do myself. But I do like the
idea of trying out micro needling, and I do think
there's no harm in doing it because there's nothing being
injected into your face or your skin. It's literally just
a tool that's there to improve the collagen again, making
the skin firmer, smoother, all that. So this is again
something that's very new to me that I am trying out.
So that is something I will give my honest review
on that. I do think micro needling is going to
be big thing this year and a lot of girls
are going to be talking about the benefits of it.
The next one is kind of in relation to again
a treatment that you can do. It's taking up acupuncture,
and this is something that I've heard amazing things about,
especially when it comes to pain relief. So for me,
because I have my back injury, I've been wanting to
do acupuncture for kind of like helping any sore muscles,
but I've also been wanting to do it for my
stress and anxiety. That is something that is really really
good for calming the body and just like helps ease
any anxiety or emotional tension that like your body may have.
And I think obviously with my prepping for pregnancy journey,
this is one thing that people say is incredible to
take up because again it's really helping your body not
feel stressed, not feel tense. And I feel like for me,
I always feel stressed in tents. I don't know why,
it's just I do. And I think the acupuncture really
going to help just like release any tension that my
body's feeling and just really like destress it. And it's
something that you have to go at least once a
month doing It's something that I hear a lot of
women actually do that struggle to get pregnant. So girls
that are in their IVF journey or just like really
struggling to get pregnant, they always always recommend taking up acupuncture.
Apparently it also improves sleep too, so anyways, a lot
of benefits to it. But again, I think a lot
of people are going to be making this a priority
for twenty twenty six. Is just like treatments, appointments, things
like that that are going to just help their overall
health when it comes to their skin, their body, stress, anxiety,
you name it. People just making it more of a
priority to go to these appointments and take care of
themselves and doing everything they can just kind of make
them feel like the best version of their self going
into twenty twenty six. Another one is more mocktails going
into twenty twenty. I am definitely gonna be more of
a mocktail girly this year and again in regards to
kind of like prepping for pregnancy. But also I just
like don't love drinking too much. I've talked about that
in the past, but I think it's okay to order
a cocktail, get your spicy rg get your apprel sprits,
whatever the heck you like to drink, Get your drink,
and then, oh you don't want another drink, Okay, get
a mocktail, Like, who freaking cares? Mocktails I feel like
have been such a popular thing over time, in the
sense where I feel like more restaurants are adding more
and more drink options that are non alcoholic, which I
love because there are some people that just don't drink
and there could be a reason for it. There may
not be a reason for it obviously, like alcohol is
not the greatest for you, let's be honest. And I
think having a lot of mocktail options at a restaurant
is so hot. Like I think it's such a cool thing.
And they make the drink still all pretty. It feels
like a cocktail again, like it's more so just like
the presentation of a drink. In my opinion, it's not
really like the feeling like I wouldn't say like alcohol,
Oh my god, the alcohol makes me feel good, Like
I don't how to explain it, but like I personally
feel like I don't need alcohol to have a good time,
Like I can be sober the entire night and have
the best time and not feel like I have FOMO
from drinking alcohol with my friends, like if that makes sense,
Like I feel like I've realized that, like there's gonna
be alcohol for some people that like makes them have
a good time and eases their social anxiety or whatever
it is, right, And I'm like, you know what you do,
you that's great. I'm happy that you're drinking and that
that helps you out right, But for me personally, I'm
happy for myself because I can still have a fun
time and not like have to have a cocktail or
have to have a shot of alcohol, you know what
I mean. Like I can fully just have a mocktail,
be fully present and enjoy my time with my friends
and still feel productive the next day, not having to
stress about having a hangover. So I don't know. That's
just a big thing that I think is gonna be
for twenty twenty six is you're gonna notice more girls
drinking less or not drinking any alcohol at all, And
it's gonna become a more popular thing in my opinion,
and people are gonna feel more confident drinking a mocktail
and not feel like overly anxious about people like thinking
different of them, Like you know, someone saying something like,
oh you're not drinking. It's like no one's in a
new anymore. Everyone's gonna just be like you do you like.
I think that's gonna be a big thing, is that
girls are just gonna support girls regardless if they're drinking
or not, and not care if you're a mocktail drinker
or if you're a cocktail drinker. I think twenty twenty
six is the year where people are choosing to do
what's best for themselves, and I think everyone's gonna support
that regardless. So that is something that I think is
going to be a big, big thing for twenty twenty six. Okay,
we have two more. One is more home cooked meals,
less takeout. I think that's obviously a non negotiable going
into the new year. Is eighty percent at home cooked meals,
twenty percent takeout. So try and cook every Monday to Friday,
and then on the Saturday or the Sunday, treat yourself
to a little takeout with your boyfriend or husband or
partner or with your friends. Like obviously we got to
live life still, but I think as long as you
follow the eighty twenty rule of really just kind of
like balancing out life. And that's also when it comes
to drinking alcohol too, So if you are someone that
likes to drink alcohol, get that eighty twenty percent rule
for the same thing. Eighty percent of the time you're
not drinking twenty percent of the time you're occasionally treating
yourself to a glass of wine. Another one is no
late bedtimes. Everyone's going to bed early. Okay, we're going
to bed early because guess what, the girls want to
wake up early, so they have a structured morning routine
that they actually want to do every single morning. So
late bedtimes are out, early bedtimes are in. Everyone's trying
to go on their phone less, not scroll. We're doing
meditation before for bed. We're really just trying to relax
our minds and have an early bedtime so we can
wake up and be productive and have an early morning routine.
So that's a big one that I think is a
non negotiable for the healthy girls that want to establish
a routine for twenty twenty six. Okay, the last one
is scrolling less. I think everybody could get off their
phones for a little bit and not doing scroll so much.
I am definitely a victim to that, And something that
I really want to work on this year is you know,
putting my phone aside at a certain time and not
feeling the urge to look at it. So that's obviously
dedicating more time to reading, more time to just like
spend time with my husband, like not having my phone
during dinner, like putting it away. I just feel like
sometimes the content that we consume is actually affecting our
anxiety and our stress, and I think it's obviously not
something that we want to consume. So I think, you know,
just really being able to put your phone aside and
focus on that present moment of doing whatever you're doing
with your person is so crucial. And obviously, like reading
instead of scrolling on your phone before you head to bed,
like something as easy as that, it's so much better
to just like read a book that you're actually enjoying,
versus again randomly scrolling on TikTok or Instagram for no
reason at all. So scrolling less is definitely a big
one for me in twenty twenty six, and I think
that's going to be a big one for a lot
of people this year. So those are all the healthy
Girl habits that I think are going to be a
non negotiable this year for twenty twenty six. Of course,
I probably could have named a lot more, but I
do talk a lot about some habits in the episode
that I talked about, which was the things that I'm
bringing into twenty twenty six. So these ones are kind
of different in things that I'm kind of working on
this year that I want to do or things that
I'm going to continue doing, whereas the other one was
more about just like things that I did last year
that I'm taking into this year. So if you want
to another episode that's kind of similar to this, I
highly recommend listening to that one as well. But these
ones are things that I'm definitely going to take into
this year and definitely make a non negotiable for myself,
and figured I would share it with you guys for
anyone that's starting their health and wellness journey that really
wants to just kind of like lock in for twenty
twenty six. These are great things to really consider for
yourself going into twenty twenty six, because this is the
year where we're all really just going to focus on
ourself and just again lock in for the health and
wellness girlies. So this is the perfect kind of list
for anyone that's looking to have some new habits to
take into their daily routine. So thank you guys so
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